Chapter 195: Chapter 187: Another Christmas Rolls Around
"Senior, you’re already signed up. It wouldn’t be good to withdraw now, right? Besides, the senior looks very capable. Why don’t you team up and play together?"
Su Xiaomeng asked hurriedly, "Don’t you recognize me?"
"Uh..."
"I’m married, and it’s not suitable for a married person like me to participate in a mixed-gender team game, right?"
Su Xiaomeng quickly said.
However...
"Senior, why are you so conservative? It’s just a game, don’t overthink it!"
The staff sighed lightly, genuinely feeling that Su Xiaomeng was too uptight.
Looking at each group in the game, there really wasn’t anything awkward or misleading.
In this winter, everyone is dressed so warmly. Forget tying a sack, even if you stuff a quilt, nothing would happen, right?
Su Xiaomeng’s mouth opened, seeing everyone looking at her with an expression as if she was overreacting.
With her sharp ears, she even heard some girls whispering, "She’s married and is so proud of it... does being married make her special..."
Su Xiaomeng’s head ached again.
Bai Shunyuan smirked mischievously and got close to Su Xiaomeng, "Su, after getting married, can’t you even play a game with a guy?"
"It’s not that I can’t play with guys, I just don’t want to play with you, alright?"
Su Xiaomeng glanced at him speechlessly.
"But what can I do? I just want to play with you..."
Bai Shunyuan shrugged, speaking as if it were obvious.
"Where’s your girlfriend? Don’t you have one? Let her play with you!"
"Su, why are you always hung up on me having a girlfriend? Even if I have one, I don’t mind playing a little Christmas game with you, sis."
"But why are you so fussy?"
Su Xiaomeng and Bai Shunyuan really couldn’t communicate.
"Senior, we’re all classmates, what’s the big deal about playing a small game?"
The staff over there also fanned the flames.
Su Xiaomeng wanted to say, you don’t know how dangerous Bai Shunyuan is! Yes, what’s the danger in playing a game, but the problem is it’s Bai Shunyuan on the other side!
He looks like someone filled with bad ideas and abnormal thoughts!
As the situation grew tense, Yin Meng pulled Su Xiaomeng aside and whispered, "After all, he’s your cousin. He just wants to get closer to you, strengthen the sibling bond."
"...You also think I should play with him?"
Su Xiaomeng’s eyes widened.
Yin Meng shrugged, "What’s the big deal? He bullied you before because he didn’t know you were his cousin. Now that he knows, and calls you ’sis’, aren’t you going to respond at all?"
That’s true, but why does Su Xiaomeng feel something’s off?
"Go play, relax, forget you’re a wife, you’re just an ordinary college student!"
Yin Meng pushed her back into the team.
Since Meng Meng said so, Su Xiaomeng naturally stopped being pretentious, glancing at Bai Shunyuan who "wants to get close," "If you bully me again, I’ll tell Grandpa!"
Su Xiaomeng glared at him, threatening.
Bai Shunyuan raised his eyebrows, does this woman have a problem? Instead of going to her husband, the bigger support, she goes to Grandpa?
A man at least sixty or seventy years old?
Just as he wanted to mock her, the staff already waved at them, "Senior and senior, it’s your turn, come over and get ready."
Upon hearing this, Su Xiaomeng raised her head and walked over, following the staff’s instructions and stepping into the big sack.
Bai Shunyuan was very tall, and once he got into the sack, Su Xiaomeng appeared small, and the sack seemed small too.
Each group had five pairs.
When it came to the actual competition, Su Xiaomeng was indeed competitive. She looked up at Bai Shunyuan, "Listen to my command in a bit, when I say jump, jump, got it? Cooperate!"
Bai Shunyuan glanced at her, "Listen to my command."
Su Xiaomeng was a bit speechless but thought, listening to either command was fine.
Once the other four groups were ready, Su Xiaomeng held onto the sack, feeling a bit nervous...
With the sound of the whistle, Su Xiaomeng bent her knees, waiting for Bai Shunyuan’s command to jump, only to find her waist suddenly tightened.
Then her feet left the ground.
With wide eyes, she looked at Bai Shunyuan, only to hear him say, "Hold onto the sack, lean your body against me."
With that, he jumped with her...
This jump was followed by a chorus of cheers around them.
As the person involved, Su Xiaomeng was almost stupefied. This Bai Shunyuan’s strength was a bit too much, wasn’t it?
But... she couldn’t deny, seeing them in first place under Bai Shunyuan’s brute force was immensely satisfying!
"Bai Shunyuan, you’re amazing! I just need to focus on sleeping then!"
Su Xiaomeng couldn’t help but tease.
Bai Shunyuan glanced down at her without speaking.
No one knew how fast and hard his heart was beating at that moment.
"Hurry up, we’re about to be overtaken!"
Seeing that he liked exerting himself, Su Xiaomeng relaxed and let this domineering cousin do his best!
She looked like she was holding a whip in her hand, urging all the way.
"Faster, faster!"
Bai Shunyuan certainly couldn’t let Su Xiaomeng look down on him, so he put all his effort into leaping forward. Seeing that they were about to cross the finish line in first place—
A regretful sound erupted from the audience.
Bai Shunyuan and Su Xiaomeng fell, with Su Xiaomeng pinned beneath Bai Shunyuan...
"Oh dear... Can you just stop? I knew nothing good would come from teaming up with you! You call me ’sister’ sweetly, but you’re really just here to mess with me!"
Su Xiaomeng, lying on her side, rubbed her hand that got pinned, straightened her body, and saw that he was still hovering over her, "Hey, we lost. Aren’t you going to get up?"
Bai Shunyuan swallowed, then crawled out of the sack and helped Su Xiaomeng up.
"Who told you to laugh?"
Su Xiaomeng hadn’t blamed Bai Shunyuan yet, but he already started to blame her.
With just a glance down, he saw Su Xiaomeng laughing uncontrollably and got a bit dumbfounded in that instant...
"I laughed? When did I laugh?"
Su Xiaomeng glanced at him, "In a serious competition like this, without crossing the finish line, would I laugh? Besides, even if I laughed, you shouldn’t have just fallen, right?"
"Your laughing threw me off! Let’s go again!"
Bai Shunyuan said as he pulled Su Xiaomeng, ready to sign up again.
Su Xiaomeng frowned, "Enough, Bai Shunyuan."
Freeing herself from the unreasonable big guy’s grip, Su Xiaomeng rubbed her wrist and ran over to Yin Meng, "And you’re laughing! You’re the one who told me to bond with him as siblings! I ended up falling!"
"Oh dear, really? So pitiful..."
Yin Meng couldn’t stop laughing, removed the hat from Su Xiaomeng’s head, and said, "Let me tell you, Xiao Meng, there’s a bond of blood between you two. He truly sees you as his little sister."
Just after Yin Meng said that, Su Xiaomeng felt her forehead, "You don’t have a fever, do you?"
Yin Meng took Su Xiaomeng’s hand away, "I’m serious. Bai Shunyuan has a really domineering personality, always so aloof. If he didn’t want to bond with you as siblings, why would he be playing such childish games with you?"
"And when you fell earlier, he instinctively protected you! Even cushioned your fall with his wrist."
Su Xiaomeng pouted, "Sibling or not, this person is unreliable. Better to keep some distance."
Su Xiaomeng stubbornly stuck to her own thoughts.
"Even Shixiu said so, and you don’t believe him?"
Yin Meng shook her phone, and Su Xiaomeng blinked.
Yin Meng said, "I just sent the video of you guys playing to Shixiu! Let him enjoy a laugh too! Haha!"
Su Xiaomeng was dumbfounded for a moment and moved closer to Yin Meng, "You actually recorded it just now?"
Yin Meng shrugged, slightly mischievous, "I know you two cousins being together would definitely be comical."
Su Xiaomeng’s expression turned cold, "Oh, Meng Meng, now I know why you encouraged me to play the game with Bai Shunyuan!"
"Hahaha!"
Yin Meng laughed triumphantly.
"You said something about bonding... I despise you!"
Su Xiaomeng said angrily, realizing Yin Meng just wanted to watch the show!
Yin Meng didn’t feel too embarrassed, considering it was Christmas. Besides, after Xiao Meng married Shixiu, the time they spent together as besties significantly decreased.
Messing with her a bit didn’t seem like a big deal.
And Su Xiaomeng wasn’t one to hold grudges against Yin Meng, seeing her laugh so happily, she just sighed helplessly.
"By the way, what did Shixiu say?"
Xiao Meng didn’t forget to take the phone from Yin Meng to check Yin Shixiu’s reply.
——Cousins seem to be having lots of fun together.
Su Xiaomeng looked at the message from Yin Shixiu and pouted, immediately sent a voice message, "He’s just messing with me!"
Yin Meng couldn’t stop laughing. Meanwhile, Su Xiaomeng noted Yin Shixiu hadn’t replied for a long time, so she sent another voice message, "Shixiu, are you sure you’ll be back tomorrow?"
After a while, a simple "Yes" came through.
Over on that end, Yin Shixiu leaned back in his leather chair, looking at the short videos on WeChat... feeling a bit wistful.
Cousins... huh?
Su Xiaomeng pouted and returned the phone to Yin Meng, "He’s probably working... you shouldn’t disturb him!"
Yin Meng glanced at her sideways, "Little Aunt, he’s your husband but my uncle! You don’t have the right to deprive me of sharing joy with him..."
Su Xiaomeng was exasperated, "Alright, alright, go ahead and share, okay?"
Yin Meng hugged her arm, "Alright, let’s go have some desserts? After desserts, you can go to the restaurant to meet up with your grandpa and the others."
Su Xiaomeng nodded, although, wouldn’t you know it...
Bai Shunyuan came over again.
"Su Xiaomeng!"
"...What do you want?"
Su Xiaomeng looked up, puzzled, at Bai Shunyuan.
"Got some time?"
"No."
Su Xiaomeng said without hesitation.
Bai Shunyuan furrowed his brows, "I heard you two were going to have dessert when I walked over here, and you’re telling me you don’t have time?"